Cash register and indicator



(N0 Model.) B 5 Sheets-Sheet CASH REGISTER AND INDICATOR.

No. 446,150. Patented Feb. 10, 1891.

(No Model.) B MOSHE 5 Sheets-Sheet 2.

CASH REGISTER AND INDICATOR.

No. 446,150. Patented Feb. 10,1891.

(No Model B MOSHE 5 Sheets-Shee1q 3.

CASH REGISTER AND INDICATOR.

Patented Feb. 10, 1891.

{No Model.) B 5 SheetsSheet 4.

CASH REGISTER AND INDICATOR.

No. 446,150. Patented Feb. 10,1891.

(No Model.) B MOSER 5 Sheets-Sheet 5.

CASH REGISTER AND INDICATOR.

Patented Feb. 10,1891.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

*EEXJAMIN MOSER, OF BROOKLYN, NEIY YORK.

CASH REGISTER AN D IN DICATO R.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 446,150, dated February 10, 1891.

Application filed December 2, 1889. Serial No. 382,192. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that. I, BENJAMIN Mosnn, of Brooklyn, county of Kings, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Indicator, Register, and Adding Machines, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

This invention relates to that general class of machines known as cash indicators, cash-registers, &c., and has for its object the provision or production of a machine which, while serving as an indicator, register, and adding machine, may be easily and cheaply made, be positive and accurate in its various operations or the operations of its various parts, not liable to get out of order, and to aiford always a correct addition, indication, or registration, as may be required of it. To accomplish all of this and to secure other and further advantages in the matters of construction, operation, and use, my improve ments involve certain new and useful arrangements or combinations of parts, peculiarities of construction, and principles of operation, as will be hereinafter first fully described, and then pointed outin. the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, forming partof this specification, Figure l is a vertical view on a plane cutting through the easing from front to rear, showing the mechanism in side elevation; Fig. 2, a front elevation omitting the front of the casing, and Fig. 3 a rear elevation omitting the rear of the casing. Fig. at is a side view showing one of the articulated actuating-bars by which the adding-wheels are turned, and Fig.5 a cross-section through line of Fig. 4. Fig. 6 is a side view of one of the rack-bars which communicate motion to the printing appliance, and Fig. '7 a cross-section through line 3 y of Fig. (5. Fig. 8 is an elevation, and Fig. J a plan, showing details of the printing appliance detached from other parts and on a larger scale than in previous figures.

In all the figures like letters of reference wherever they occur indicate corresponding parts.

A represents the casing within which the mechanism is mounted, the same being intended to be of any desirable shape and form and to aitord opportunity for viewing the indicators and adding-wheels, as is usual in other machines of this class.

I3 I3, &c., are the main numbered or adding wheels mounted so as to turn accurately and smoothly upon an aXisB. These wheels may be of any number, according to the capacity of the machine, in the example shown being but five, which is ample for all ordinary use. Teeth are provided upon their margins of ample length, and these are divided into four groups on each wheel, numbered 0 l 2, &c., up to 0, except on the last wheel of the series, whereon the teeth are numbered from O 1, 850., up to 39. The five wheels thus numbered will indicate a total as high as 399,999. The wheels, except the last, are provided at or near the places of the zero-marks with carrier-buttons 13 so arranged that as they are turned they will, through mechanism to be hereinafter referred to, cause the neXt wheel in the series to advance one point, so that, starting with the units-wheel, or the first one in the series, as soon as it is moved ten. spaces the second or tens wheel will be moved one space, and when the second wheel is thus or by other means moved ten spaces the third will be caused to move one space, and so 011 throughout the series. Beneath each of these wheels is mounted a peculiar bar 0 for actuating or turning them from the av terior, as may he required. This bar is best shown in Fig. at. It is provided with a number of teeth or projections O O, calculated to enter the spaces between the teeth on the numbered wheel. Of these projections there is a sufficient number on each bar so that if the bar be moved its entire length of travel it must cause the wheel to turn ten spaces.

0 is a rod or bar which is stationary and which serves as a guide and support for the bar 0, and over which the latter travels, being supported thereon on small friction wheels or rollers, as c, mounted in yokes O C", braced at suitable distances by a red C, to which the bar O is hinged, so as to rise and fall a short distance.

O O are links, each hinged to bar O' at one end and provided above the hinge with a cross-pin c, which engages with or bears against an inclined portion of bar 0. (Represented at 0 Connected with the links by i as the handle is drawn out it turns the links on their hinge-pins as levers, and the pins 0 then force the bar Oto rise sufiiciently to throw its teeth into engagement with the teeth of the numbered wheel. Then if the handle C be further retracted the bar 0 is moved and the wheel turned in a manner which will be readily understood.

The dotted lines in Fig. 4 indicate the manner in which and the position to which the bar 0 is elevated before it commences to travel in longitudinal direction,and it will be observed that it is elevated directly and without horizontal travel, which overcomes much of the difficulty experienced in these machines in consequence of lost motion.

Each of the traveling bars or carriers 0 is operated upon by a spring-arm C fixed at one end and bearing upon the bar or some part, as yoke 0 connected therewith at the other, and the office of these arms is to return the bars or carriers back to their farthest limit as soon as they are released by the operator and in position to be again drawn out, as maybe required. Upon releasingany bar 0 it first drops down by its own gravity from its elevated position, so as to entirely clear the numbering-wheel, and is then perpoints or spaces.

fectly free to be drawn back by the springarm 0 If either of the carriers be drawn out to its limit of travel, it will cause the corresponding numbering-wheel to turn through ten spaces. In order to limit this travel so that the bar, and therefore the numberingwheel, may be advanced to any desired point for each carrier, I supply a peculiar and efficient stop, which may be brought into action with certainty and celerity by simply touching a button or knob corresponding with the number or figure required to be added by the particular numbering-wheel to be moved.

D D are stems or buttons projecting through the frontof the casing. These at their inner ends are connected with angle-arms D, hinged. upon an axis, as d, and carrying stops or blocks 61', which are arranged to be elevated to the path of the carrier, and when so elevated to prevent further outward movement of said carrier. The an gle-arms maybe single or double for greater stability and strength. The buttons are numbered from the bottom up, as indicated in Fig. 1. Spring-arms, as (1*, are made to bear against each anglearm to return it to its normal position out of the path of the carrier as soon as the correspondin g button is released. Vhen any particular button.as, for instance, the seventh in the series from the bottomis pushed in, its corresponding block is raised, and the corresponding carrier can then only be withdrawn so far as to turn the numbering-wheel seven It will be observed that this operation requires the operator to use both hands for the movement of an y-one numbering or registering wheel, so that no two numbering-wheels will be moved together.

The machine as so far described may be used as an adding-machine without the addition of either an indicator or printing-wheels. The carrying from one numbering-wheel to the next in the series is effected by the mechanism next to be described.

E E are bell-crank levers mounted uponan axle E, each curved or bent at the lower end and located so as to lie in the path of the buttons Bhbefore referred to, and held normally in that path by suitable bearing-springs 6. Upon the sides of levers E are pawls E hinged and arranged to engage between the teeth of the next succeeding numbering-wheel in the series, and these pawls are supplied with suitable springs e. When the button on one wheel depresses the curved lower end of the corresponding lever, that lever is forced down upon its axis, carrying the pawl E down also. and the latter is thus caused to carry forward the next succeeding wheel with which it engages. The button, having traveled one space or notch, passes the end of the lever, leaving it free to spring back to its normal position ready to be moved by the next button which touches it. The pawl E remains always in contact with the numberingwheel to which it is applied, so that it is always in position to turn that wheel one notch whenever it is moved through the movement of the button on the preceding wheel. Thus it is that no carrying can be missed and the accuracy of the mechanical adding is insured.

To prevent the, numbering-wheels from jumping or being forced farther than intended, as well as to prevent them from being turned back after having been advanced, spring-actuated safety-pawls, as E, are made to engage with each wheel. These are out upon their bearing-faces, so as to permit the wheels to turn forward easily one notch at a time and to oppose a solid resistance to their turning in the opposite direction. On the last wheel of the series is a stop-arm E, which is so situated as to bring up solidly against the shaft E on which the pawls E are hinged,

or against some other obstruction when the last wheel reaches the limit of its travel. Then the stop-arm has only to be released and the wheels turned forward so as to bring all the zeros in proper line, when the machine is ready to be started anew to commence numbering or adding from zero up to the limit of its capacity.

The adding-wheels thus far referred to afford at any time the sum total of all the additions made by or on the machine. It is desirable to indicate by another mechanism each separate amount which is to be added, and this is eifected by what is called the indicator. F F, &c., are indicator-wheels, of number corresponding with the size or capacity of the adding mechanism, and these are each figured upon their faces from 0 to 9, as partly indicated in Fig. 2, and they-are of size tobe IIO distinctly seen and their characters easily read. Theyturn upon an axle F, and are each supplied with a gear or cog wheel F" with ten teeth. Any suitable opening in the casing affords a view of one line of the indicator-figures on these wheels. in order that they may be turned to exactly indicate the number which is to be added by the machine, they are connected with the adding mechanism by arms F axled upon a shaft E and carrying toothed ares F, which engage with the gears F The are which turns the unitswheel of the indicator is moved only as the units-wheel of the addi n g mechanism is moved, and so on through the series. As the carrierbar C is drawn out to any particular point, it carries with it the lower end. of arm F which is connected with a sliding block, as F, riding on bar C by any suitable means, as bya link F, and the portions of the arm F on each side of its axle are so adjusted that when the carrier moves its adding-wheel any particular number of degrees the arc F will cause its corresponding indicator-wheel to move through precisely the same angular distance. \Yhen once carried forward, the blocks F are left in their advanced position until purposely returned, so that the indicator may be read at any time, thus showing the ligures last added. When desired to add another set of figures, theindicator must be returned to zero. This is effected by use of a handrod G, extending to the front of the machine, by drawing out which rods G, one for each of the sliding blocks, forces the block, and thus the indicator, back to the starting-point.

At G" is any form of alarm-bell, which is sounded when the indicator is carried back to zero. To strike this bell, any convenient appliance, as an arm G, is operated in connection with one of the rods G and so arranged that it will sound the bell when the rod G is at its limit of backward travel, as indicated in Fig. 1.

The machine thus far described may be employed without a printing attachment or with any convenient form of such attachment, the purpose of which is to afford a registration of each set. of figures or numbers which may have been mechanically added by the adding mechanism, and whicl1,when for that purpose arranged, may be detached from the machine, supplying the place of a check or receipt, as is well understood.

The printing mechanism herein shown is advantageous in matters of simplicity, accuracy, and convenience, and is especially well adapted for use in connection with this form of addingmachine and indicator, or with either separately. H H, &c., are the printingwheels, the teeth of which are properly engraved or cut, so as to accomplish the des red printing or stamping upon paper, each wheel having ten teeth, numbered from 0 to 9. The printing-wheels should move in unison with or in proper correspondence with the ad vance marked by the adding or registering wheels,andshould printthenumbersorfigures the same as shown on the indicator-wheels at any movement of the machine. The printing-wheels ll. are operated by sliding rackbars H, which engage one with each wheel, and these rack-bars are connected with the sliding bars 0 in such manner thatas the latter are moved precisely so will the former be moved. The connection is made by rigid yokes, as H ll-, &c., attached to both racks or bars and compelling each to move simultaneously with its corresponding one in the series.

I is a roll of paper upon which the printing is to be effected, the same being suspended in suitable arms I I, so as to revolve freely and be entirely out of the way of other parts of the machine. The strip of paper is carried through suitable guides to a position over the printing-wheels and under a rubber-faced or other slightly-yielding feeding-wheel K. The wheel K is turned and the paper thus fed forward by use of a hand lever or crank L, extending out at the front of the machine. This is axled, as at B, and carries a hinged portion L arranged to engage with pins or projections, as 7., upon wheel K. 1; bearing down upon the outer end of lever L thejoint L is raised and is thrown into engagement with one of the pins 7; by a suitable spring 7. Then by lifting upon the outer end of lever .L it is plain that wheel K must be turned in such direction as to feed the paper strip forward. Depending from lever L is a bar )1, suitably hinged thereon and arranged to engage in its descent with a hinged arm M, the latterbeing suppliedwith ablock of rubber or other suitable material, (represented at 121,) the said block being inclined at its inner or bearing face, so as to bear evenly upon the line of numbered teeth, which are slightly inclined from the vertical. Upon the inner face of bar 31 is a knife-edge, (represented at N) and this is adjusted so as to ride in contact with the face of one of the guides N for the paper strip. Upon depressing the lever L the strip is cut off by the knife-edge, the printing thereon effected by the printing-block, and the piece detached may be then given the customer or preserved, as may be desired. lVhen lever L is elevated, the bar M is forced back by pin m against the action of a springm suflicient to allow a block or projection on to pass pin on on bar M, and immediately returns to position to engage that pin upon the next downward movement of lever L. The knife is automatically elevated above its cutting position, so as to allow the paper to pass under it, by a spring "in", which operates upon a hinged piece, (shown in Y shape, Fig. 1,) through which the inking-roller axles extend and through this and through the connectinglink upon the knife-bar.

O O are inking-rollers made to travel across the face of the printing-teeth to supply the ink. They are suspended or axled in pieces 0 0, connected with bar M, and as the latter is forced down or moved up they ride across the printing-surfaces, keeping them always in proper condition to supply a legible print. If intended merely to stamp, of course the inking attachment may be omitted.

Whenever a check is given or the printing mechanism released to be again brought into action,it is desirable that an alarmbe sounded, and for this purpose I supply an alarm-bell P, of which the striker P is connected with a hinged arm P, the latter being raised at one end by a hook P connected with lever L. Upon rising a slight distance this hook releases arm P -and the latter is returned by its returning-spring, and the bell thereby caused to be sounded. A spring-pawl Q engages with each of the racks H in such manner as to allow them to be advanced, but to prevent their retraction until released. These pawls are hinged upon the same axis as arm P and are raised as soon as that arm is raised to sound the alarm, so the racks H, and therefore the wheels, cannot be returned to their normal positions until the alarm is first sounded.

WVhen the machine is constructed and arranged for operation substantiallyin accordance with the foregoing explanations, it will be found to answer all the purposes or objects of the invention above indicated.

Having now fully described my invention, what I claim as new herein, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The combination,with the numbering or adding wheels having figured teeth divided into four groups and each of said wheels provided with carrying-buttons, of the sliding toothed bar for turning the wheels, mounted uponstationarybars and provided with springarms, substantially as described.

2. In combination with the sliding rackbars for moving the numbering. or adding wheels, the hinged links, the cross-pins bearing upon inclined faces on the bars, and the yokes connected with the links for moving the bars vertically, substantially as shown and described.

3. The sliding rack-bars for moving the numbering or adding wheels, the same being combined with links and yokes, as explained, and with friction-rollers running upon a stationary rod, substantially as shown andv described.

4. The combination, with the sliding rackbars mounted upon stationary bars, of the stems or buttons projecting through the front of the casing, the hinged angle-arms connected with said stems or buttons, and the stops or blocks carried by said arms to limit the outward movement of the rack-bars, substantially as described.

5. The combination, with the numbering or adding wheels provided with carrying-buttons, and the indicator-wheels, of the axled arcs actuating the indicator-wheels, and the bell-crank levers mounted upon the axles of said arcs and engaging with the buttons on said adding-wheels,substantiallyasdescribed.

6. The combination, with the numbering or adding wheels provided With carrying-buttons, and the indicator-wheels, of the axled arcs actuating the indicator-wheels, and the bell-crank levers mounted upon the axles of said arcs and engaging with said carryingbuttons, and the pawls hinged to said bellcrank levers and engaging with the teeth of the said wheels, substantially as described.

7. The combination, with the numbering or adding Wheels provided with carrying-buttons, the axled arcs, bell-crank levers, and pawls mounted on said levers, of a shaft carrying spring-actuated pawls engaging with the teeth of the said wheels, substantially as described.

8. The combination,with the numbering or adding wheels provided with carrying-buttons, indicator'wheels, the axled arcs, bellcrank levers, and pawls mounted on said levers, of a shaft carrying spring-actuated pawls engaging with the teeth of said wheels, and a stop-arm located on the last of said wheels and adapted to bear against said shaft, substantially as described.

9. The combination,with the numbering or adding wheels provided with carrying-but tons, the axled arcs, bell-crank levers, and pawls mounted on said levers, of the handrod G and pivoted rods G, connected with said hand-rod and with the axled arcs, substantially as described.

10. The combination, with the registerwheels and the rack-bars II, of the yokes H connected with said bars, and the sliding bars 0, substantially as described.

11. The combination, with the cash-indicator Wheels, of the paper strip, the feed-wheel K, having projections la, the pivoted lever L, having arm L adapted to engage with said projections, the spring Z, and mechanism whereby the same number that appears on the indicator-wheel is printed on the strip, substantially as described.

12. The combination, with the cash-indicator wheels, the paper strip, the pressure- Wheel K, having projections 70, of the lever L, having hinged portion or arm L bar M, block, and cutting-knife, the bar M, spring m, projection m pin m and mechanism whereby the same number that appears on the indicator-wheel is printed on the paper strip, substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two witnesses.

v BENJAMINMOSER.

Witnesses:

W. J. MORGAN, WORTH Oseoon. 

